Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IPsec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IPsec over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 677 758
Rank change year-on-year +118 +81 +165
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 125 210 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.80% 1.54% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 107 133 106
10th Percentile £37,500 £26,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £32,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year +92.31% -34.67% -0.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPsec falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPsec.

Salary trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +133 114 £62,500 +31.58% 41
UK excluding London +138 86 £62,500 +92.31% 28
Work from Home +125 48 £72,500 +52.63% 32
South East +119 36 £62,500 +17.92% 9
London +88 32 £60,000 +20.00% 17
Midlands +35 19 £65,000 +137.23% 4
West Midlands +34 19 £65,000 +137.23% 3
North of England +65 12 £52,500 +50.00% 5
South West +106 11 £32,500 +4.00% 2
North West +17 10 £55,000 +57.14% 2
Scotland +112 4 £40,000 +23.08% 4
Northern Ireland +34 3 £85,000 - 1
Yorkshire +64 2 £44,700 -28.48% 3
East of England +56 2 £58,500 -6.40% 4
Wales +32 1 £37,733 -8.12%

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.40%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.60%) Apache Solr
2 12 (9.60%) nginx
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.60%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.20%) Azure
2 23 (18.40%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (13.60%) AWS
4 13 (10.40%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.40%) OneDrive
5 8 (6.40%) SaaS
6 7 (5.60%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (4.80%) Mimecast
8 5 (4.00%) IaaS
8 5 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.20%) PaaS
10 3 (2.40%) GCP
11 2 (1.60%) OCI
12 1 (0.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 69 (55.20%) BGP
1 69 (55.20%) VPN
2 62 (49.60%) WAN
3 54 (43.20%) Firewall
4 49 (39.20%) LAN
5 48 (38.40%) OSPF
6 42 (33.60%) MPLS
7 35 (28.00%) DNS
8 33 (26.40%) TCP/IP
9 29 (23.20%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (22.40%) VLAN
11 27 (21.60%) SD-WAN
12 25 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (19.20%) Cisco Firepower
14 22 (17.60%) DHCP
14 22 (17.60%) SSL
15 21 (16.80%) Junos
15 21 (16.80%) Wireless
16 19 (15.20%) Cisco IOS
17 17 (13.60%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) Couchbase
1 12 (9.60%) MySQL
1 12 (9.60%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.80%) Power BI
General
1 30 (24.00%) Finance
2 23 (18.40%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Local Government
5 7 (5.60%) Banking
6 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.20%) Police
8 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.60%) Advertising
10 2 (1.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.80%) Aviation
11 1 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (32.80%) Network Engineer
2 33 (26.40%) Senior
3 24 (19.20%) Architect
4 23 (18.40%) Network Architect
5 10 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Lead
7 8 (6.40%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (6.40%) Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (6.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Consultant
8 7 (5.60%) GCP DevOps
8 7 (5.60%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 7 (5.60%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (5.60%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
8 7 (5.60%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.60%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (8.00%) 802.1X
3 4 (3.20%) JSON
3 4 (3.20%) YAML
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.80%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.60%) Data Centre
2 15 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.40%) Driving Licence
3 8 (6.40%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.60%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.00%) PKI
6 4 (3.20%) Replication
7 3 (2.40%) IPTV
7 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.60%) Windows
2 13 (10.40%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.80%) Linux
4 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.80%) Solaris
6 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (22.40%) Network Design
3 21 (16.80%) Technical Leadership
4 20 (16.00%) ITIL
5 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (15.20%) DevOps
6 16 (12.80%) Change Management
7 15 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (9.60%) Agile
8 12 (9.60%) CI/CD
8 12 (9.60%) E-Commerce
8 12 (9.60%) Software Delivery
9 11 (8.80%) Load Balancing
10 10 (8.00%) Customer Service
10 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
11 9 (7.20%) Network Management
11 9 (7.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (5.60%) Business Continuity Planning
12 7 (5.60%) Coaching
12 7 (5.60%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.60%) PHP
2 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.40%) C++
4 1 (0.80%) Bash
4 1 (0.80%) R
4 1 (0.80%) Scala
4 1 (0.80%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (43.20%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (36.80%) Security Cleared
3 45 (36.00%) CCNA
3 45 (36.00%) CCNP
4 34 (27.20%) SC Cleared
5 21 (16.80%) JNCIS
6 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (6.40%) Degree
7 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (4.00%) GIAC
8 5 (4.00%) MCSA
9 3 (2.40%) A+ Certification
9 3 (2.40%) CCIE
10 1 (0.80%) CCSA
10 1 (0.80%) CISA
10 1 (0.80%) CISM
10 1 (0.80%) CISSP
10 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) SLA
2 7 (5.60%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.00%) NCSC
4 5 (4.00%) QA
5 4 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.60%) Firmware
5 1 (0.80%) Docker
5 1 (0.80%) LXC
5 1 (0.80%) Samba
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (12.00%) Terraform
2 13 (10.40%) Ansible
3 12 (9.60%) Kubernetes
4 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.20%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.60%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 67 (53.60%) Cisco
2 32 (25.60%) Juniper
3 26 (20.80%) Microsoft
4 20 (16.00%) CheckPoint
5 19 (15.20%) SolarWinds
6 17 (13.60%) Palo Alto
7 14 (11.20%) VMware
8 13 (10.40%) Meraki
9 12 (9.60%) Fortinet
10 10 (8.00%) F5
11 7 (5.60%) Arista
11 7 (5.60%) Dynatrace
12 6 (4.80%) Infoblox
13 5 (4.00%) Riverbed
14 4 (3.20%) Aruba
15 3 (2.40%) AlgoSec
15 3 (2.40%) Avaya
15 3 (2.40%) Bloomberg
15 3 (2.40%) Citrix
15 3 (2.40%) Refinitiv